Big Font Problems

Hi, I decided I'd still all the fonts from my old G4 Powermac onto my Macbook Pro and put them onto a memory dongle and started click and dragging the folders into Font Book (well over a thousand), during which it named quite a few files as corrupt and warned me not to install them.
Just as I went to tell it not to install them I brushed my dongle so and a warning message came up telling me the device was not removed properly, also Font Book crashed before I could tell it not to install fonts. All this whilst I was installing. I had to force quite the whole finder and restart and now when I go to open say Word, a screen comes up again and again stopping me from getting anywhwere saying:
"please remove font (say TImes) as it is corrupt", then once I've removed that font from font book, another one...then another one and another one, I've been here half a day deleting fonts, sometimes they are important fonts like Arial and Helvetica and it warns me not to delete them in Font Book because they are system fonts and could effect the running of some aplications, but at the same time Word tells me to delete them, I've had to dissable all my fonts because everything workds slow. I want to delete all my fonts and start again but from where can I recover the standard fonts my computer came with? And would I be risking any of the applications in the meantime?
What shall I do next and is there any quick way of distinguising the corrupt fonts (seems to be about half) from all the no corrupt fonts?
Cheers,
Ray
Sorry if this is a really thick question

OK solved.
Yes the problem was that although all the fonts were showing as normal in the system folder they were a few remaining fonts in Font Book (just the system ones) and they were deactivated, I've since activated and will not be touching it any longer as there's no need.
With Extensis it does tell you to not only have the system fonts active at all times but also Helvetica as many applications need that font, so I activated Helvetica out of the many versions I have. Only after further research what I should have done is activate specifically "Helvetica.dfont", that's the key and is the main font used in web pages like Google and Yahoo on Safari and Mail on macs, everything looks normal now. Also, after activating all the other system fonts listed above again the red star appeared back on the mail icon to notify me of new mail
Also what I like now that my fonts (around 20 thousand) have been orgonized sorted from roots up is that everything loads so speedily!..on boot up, when opening software like Word, Photoshop and Illustrator, which can often take ages if you have a wrongly placed big font collection.
OK, thanks for all the help guys, but guess what, I have ONE LAST PROBLEM, and I won't bother you any more, promise.
Last month, I had spent ages typing out the most perfect CV in word, I did a print version where I used variations of Helvetica, and an Email version for sending to office by Email where to avoid font substitution problems with PC users not having Helvetica I used Arial. I had a very tight layout with small letters, had a lot of trouble getting all my lines in there, as I used a table layout I'd made, and after a lot of tweaking and cursing had finally made things look perfect without tables jumping onto the next screen and leaving lots of white gaps. It was the ultimate perfect CV and a lot of people had commented on how it was so clear, and an example of how a CV should look as it wasn't over laden with graphics, stupid styles, overkill distracting font variations and colours etc etc.
Anyway, went to open them again just this evening to print and send out some more copies for a new job that's appeared and...nightmare! Everything is all over the place, fonts have been substituted to Times New Romany serif looking ones, and bold typefaces to some other crappy san serif. The tables that I'd spent ages making stay still have jumped all over the place due to font substitutions.
So obviously I went to Extensis Suitcase and made sure that all the Helveticas I have were activated (tonnes) and that all the Arial I have was activated. But when I went to re open word after re-starting it, sadly same problem.
Is there a fix for this?
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